Reply To: Should you swim every practice till third failure? Home › Forums › General USRPT Topics › Should you swim every practice till third failure? › Reply To: Should you swim every practice till third failure? January 10, 2016 at 11:07 am #2918 dmueckeParticipant Your main goal is to swim as much as possible meters in race pace. Swimmers can’t hold 100m race pace on 50m intervals long hence you shorten the distance but keeping the pace.